I just call him Jammy Manual now; as he's got the secrets to make his opponents injure himself.

He's now worthy of fighting a top 10 fighter now, but I really think that's an indictment on the quality pool at light-heavyweight in the UFC. And I say it not as a hater, nut he really shouldn't be top 15 worthy (which I think he is). Either boxing, kickboxing, or grappling he wouldn't make it fair, but has managed to in MMA.

Also find it funny he threw a crummy hook kick. A year back when one of our guys was warming up to fight one of his boys, he walked past us whilst we were practising his stand up (our creative kickboxing style means we throw a lot of the TMA kicks.... like hook kicks). He smugly sneered how "that shit don't work".

Dunno I we can ever do anything about that for this generating though. As a country, we don't have any grappling sport beyond Judo to help us. Eastern Europe has wrestling and even Sambo as popular sports.

I feel ever more flat about MMA these days I have to admit. The last time I was truly on the edge of my seat over British fighters was probably the 105 card, also at Manchester. Definitely a bit of quantity over quality fatigue for me.

mcmothercruncher wrote:
Parke looked good, crafty, dynamic offense, but I couldnít help thinking how stationary his head is. As the quality of his opposition gets better, an accurate striker will absolutely light him up, no?

Damn, that was one nasty cut on Pearsonís head, even if it had continued I donít think he could have gone much further before the blood got into his eyes and it was stopped anyway.

I feel ever more flat about MMA these days I have to admit. The last time I was truly on the edge of my seat over British fighters was probably the 105 card, also at Manchester. Definitely a bit of quantity over quality fatigue for me.

Way too many card.
And the UFC was meant to be the best of the best, yet I'm seeing too many average fighters in there these days.

Yup, as they do more local shows they need to swallow their pride and stop trying to charge premiership prices for championship quality product.
I suspect ego and a mistaken belief that high prices confer some sort of premium feel to things will keep it in triple figures though.